Defiance
FEBRUARY 19, 2009 THURSDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but there is another story told in the movie Defiance of a community that hid out in the forests of Belarus, and became the largest rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

Guest
  • Nechama Tec, Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut-Stamford. Holocaust scholar and author of Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
  • Roland Tec, co-producer of the movie Defiance
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